Talk:Freestyle walking

Third paragraph
The Goshen Boy Scouts are completely non-notable, obviously a vanity piece by some group who thinks they're self important. It should obviously be removed.68.41.56.173 07:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge
Doesn't this need to be merged with the Free Running article/stub? They seem to be the same thing... -Unknown
 * As far as I can tell, the difference is that freestyle walking isn't as explosive (walking versus running), and can involve mechanical implements like soap shoes, whereas free running doesn't. Plus

This sport is the best
seriously, more needs to be added to this page specificly emphisizing on the awesometude of the art form. -Unknown
 * Feel free. Tyciol 11:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

NPOV
This article smacks of POV. It definitely needs some work by someone more qualified than me. 71.9.58.46 00:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Expansion would be good. Tyciol 11:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't an article in an encyclopedia explain what something is to a person who has no background in the concept? I'd never heard of freesyle walking before, came here to Wikipedia and read this article, but I still don't know what it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.142.113.88 (talk) 21:04, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Engine poses
"Engine" Poses? from the name of the 'poses', they're supposed to be Indian, or Injun. The last is akin to calling something Nigger poses. I'm not going to change it because I don't know the true nature of what is being talked about, but this article needs work. 74.130.91.191 23:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Capitalization of second word?
I'm going to redirect the terms extreme walking and trail rushing here, both with second words capitalized and uncapitalized. Since this article exists with the 'w' for walking lowercase, any arguments against making the article match, or did someone want a move to 'W'? I think lowercase makes more sense. Perhaps a mention could be made that whoever originated the term prefers to capitalize it. Even if they did, we shouldn't keep it that way. If whoever came up with the term 'break dancing' called it 'Break Dancing' I still wouldn't use it. Tyciol 11:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, like those French "impressionists". lower case rawks!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.65.143 (talk) 00:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not at the beginning of a sentence. Tyciol (talk) 14:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Shortened term
The phrase 'freestyle walking' is long and gets repeated a lot throughout the article. Is there a shortened way of referring to this? I redirecting freewalking here because I figure some people might call it that (similar to how freestyle running is called freerunning). Can we call it that, has it been used this way? Tyciol (talk) 14:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Origin
The sentence "Freestyle walking in its purest form was first invented by Christopher Mitchell in 1995.[1] " really needs to go. The source for this is just a youtube video and does not support that this Mitchell in fact "invented" the sport, nor is he even mentioned in the video, nor does it explain what is meant by "its purest form". It seems to me that this sentence was put in by Mitchell or friends who are for some reason convinced that they came up with this "sport" which seems ridiculous. It should be reworded to something like "freestyle walking appeared as early as 1995 in a video on MTV Unfiltered." Utaneus (talk) 05:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)